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• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  people who you always think of by both first and last name all the time ... that works out for me. This time, I was six minutes late for self check ... really weird. Long necks and so sleek and awkward-looking at the same time

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  the parts into a working robot. It started off fast. I was unable to ... could release one ball at a time. This is when we had our breakthrough ... when it started getting rough. Now that we had a strategy it was time to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  , or eat three meals a day. Few spend time each day just staring into ... "early action" round of admissions, partly on grounds it contributes to ... just 17 percent of the student body. By the time she was appointed dean

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  time she crashed a bicycle in the mean streets of Boston, Ruth Miller was ... decided that it was time to conquer her fear of bikes, mountains, and New ... habit again while I was away in Philadelphia, this time on Matt's more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at ... the "unreal." In my free time, I’ve enjoyed abstract painting, but ... demonstration of drawing techniques, followed by timed drawing prompts where the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  ball of hurt I carry with me, a part of the constant calculus I engage in ... providing more clarity. I don’t think I’ve done it enough times to yet have ... , but they’re also things I’ve chosen to carry with me; they’re part of me

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before ... healthy amount of skepticism; i don’t have time to do a detailed literature

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  , here’s some notable parts and video work of the exhibition:   ... show, and then I curated this show, my own show, which was actually part ... somewhere. And so, I went and took them to a bar that I went to often times

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  music, in part because long syllables are not necessarily the stressed ... bilingual pop mashups for a cappella, and in her free time, she belts out ... residents at any one time, and 4000 undergrads, that is statistically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  part of trip planning was then figuring out places to visit. In my mind ... . Absolutely horrifying! The worst part was that the Salem Witch Trials were ... time to work. We had no excuses not to. After all, we had just spent a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  universities was particularly fascinating. The most surprising part of the talk ... universities throughout history and from different parts of the world, as ... which the presenting scholar was told, much like in our time, &ldquo

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  &A Part III blog. _________________________________ Q: I got a question ... just one part of our holisitc admissions philosophy. Yes, we do consider ... for MIT are also the valedictorian of their high school. Many times

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  year's non-freshmen do it?" This question has a few parts, so I'll answer them one at a time. Moving to a different building: A student who ... . Science is just as much a part of MIT as engineering (there are currently no

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  geometry for a while now. the first, shorter part of the course talks about regular curves, their tangent vectors and their curvature. the second part ... seem like such a long time but almost three years in, i feel like there

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  *written by Liz O. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... roll into the parking lot fashionably on-time. Most of the other people ... before, but it was not only one million times neater than my spreadsheet

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  a term at MIT. For some of you, this might entail working a part-time ... lasts for about 7-8 weeks. Plenty of time before and after Interphase to ... hardcore people at Interphase. Sure, there are some, but that’s just part of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  sung in four-part a capella harmony, and "Kuwait" is played on kazoos ... past one, and we decided that it was time to bring our concert to a close ... two-and-a-half part a capella version as we marched somewhat jauntily to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  classes or clubs? Will they spend their time after class working with their ... president at the time envisioned a "House Plan" for the residential system ... students to stay in their assigned hall for their entire time at MIT. It also

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  them at a time. There will be some spoilers, tips, and screenshots, but I ... heard of. It went big around the same time that Candy Box did, and Cookie ... fast and slow and fast and slow at parts, involves some amount of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  their ballots today. Here at MIT, employees are guaranteed time off for ... exams to help students have more time to vote. For students and staff who ... staff dashboards, which, as part of the broader MITVote initiative, has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020